BJW News

Big Japan announced the teams that will be participating the 2012 Big Japan Tag League.

There will be 12 teams involved this year with 6 teams per block. The tournament has been split into 2 completely different blocks. With the Strong style taking control of the A Block and Deathmatch rules for the B Block.
The tournament is set to begin on September 25 at the Korakuen Hall with the semi-finals and final match taking place on November 24 at the Korakuen Hall.

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Of course the biggest and saddest news of the week comes from the news of the passing of Bison Smith. Who died Tuesday (11/22) due to heart complications. Smith was just a part of the Global League in pro wrestling NOAH and seemed to be doing well from what I could personally tell.
I personally got to meet Bison on a few occasions and this news still comes hard for me to believe. We lost another guy too early and I continue to hope all the best to his family and friends at this time.

NOAH has announced that they will be holding a 10 bell salute for Bison Smith during the GREAT VOYAGE in Tokyo v.4 event this Sunday, 11/27.
[Pictured Bison Smith with Masao Inoue from this years Global Tag League]

NOAH has released the full event card for the upcoming big show on Nov. 27th. The event will be headlined by a double main event in which Jun Akiyama will be defending the All Japan Triple Crown Championship against Taiyo Kea and Go Shiozaki will be defending the GHC Heavyweight Championship against KENTA.
There will also be a determining match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight belt as Ricky Marvin relinquished the belt until he could face off against the former champion Katsuhiko Nakajima, who was forced to drop the belt due to illness. Nakajima is finally back in the ring after spending most of October recovering.

The event will also see the in ring return of Naomichi Marufuji who has been out of the ring 7 months due to injury.

The undercard is also looking interesting as well with most notably being Kenta Kobashi and Kensuke Sasaki teaming together to take on Takuma Sano and up and coming Shuhei Taniguchi.Scheduled event card:

(8) GHC Heavyweight Championship Match: [Champion] Go Shiozaki vs. [Challenger] KENTA~ Shiozaki’s 3rd Defense.
———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–BJW News: A couple matches have been announced for the big BJW show coming up on 12/18 with 2 matches especially have been announced that will definitely keep the All Japan vs. Big Japan battle flowing.
Sekimoto & Okabayashi have once again laid claim to the All Asia tag belts after the beat the team of “es” Seiya Sanada & Manabu Soya on 10/23. Following that win Sekimoto & Okabyashi have also went on to win BJW’s tag team tournament and in the process solidifying themselves as one the team to beat in Japan. Sekimoto & Okabayashi are also competing in the World’s Strong Tag League in All Japan and are doing well for themselves at this time. Though coming up on 12/18 the former Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Suwama will be teaming with the up and coming Takumi Soya (younger brother of Manabu Soya) to try and bring the belts back to All Japan. Will the pure powerhouses Sekimoto & Okabayashi continue to dominate in Japan or will they finally meet their match?
The second match will pit upcoming ace’s against one another. As BJW’s young and upcoming ace Shinya Ishikawa (27) will be taking on AJP’s next gen. ace Seiya Sanada (23). Both of these young talents have started to make their names known throughout Japan and this match could be a showing of which talent is on the verge of claiming a rightful place as a top tier younger talent in Japan.

Information from the first post a couple weeks back:http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150439965176098&set=a.297677646097.181869.189144446097&type=1&ref=nf
[Masahiro Chono will be producing a charity pro wrestling event on January 9th, 2012, also of which is being aimed at a revival for pro wrestling. At a press conference held today, Chono announced that there will be 5 promotions involved with All Japan Pro-Wrestling, Pro Wrestling ZERO1, Michinoku Pro Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling & Osaka Pro-Wrestling. At this time a total of 50 wrestlers (including freelance wrestlers as well) will be participating with a total of 10-12 matches being planned at this time. There is also mention that this event could go for 5-6 hours.
The show has a tag going along with it as “Pro Wrestling Festival vs. Meat Festival” as the show will include much food as well.]

~ Every match has a 15 minute time limit.
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(-) 5 Minute Special Match: Kessen Numajiro vs. Daichi Sasaki

(-) Main Event ~ Kinnikuman Cup Scramble Battle Royal:

[ARISTRIST] Masahiro Chono
[AJP] Suwama, Masakatsu Funaki, Taiyo Kea, Ryota Hama, Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo
[ZERO1] Shinjiro Otani, Masato Tanaka, Kohei Sato & Daichi Hashimoto
[Michinoku] The Great Sasuke, Jinsei Shinzaki, Kenou, Fujita “Jr” Hayato, Taro Nohashi & Rui Hiugaji
[BJW] Daisuke Sekimoto, Yuji Okabayashi, Yoshihito Sasaki & Ryuichi Kawakami
[Osaka] Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada, Kuuga & HAYATA
[SMASH] AKIRA
[Secret Base] Bear Fukuda
[FREE] Akebono & Yutaka Yoshie
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[IGF News]
The next IGF show is coming up on Dec. 2nd and most of the events matches have already been announced to happen. The main event will see Josh Barnett finally getting a shot at the IGF Championship. Barnett was originally scheduled to face off against Le Banner to crown the first champion on 8/27, but due to conflicting issues with Strikeforce he was pulled from the IGF show. Barnett though is now able to compete and has nothing more than the belt on his mind. Le Banner though has been a fighting champion, but this upcoming match against Barnett is going to put that reign to the test.
It would not be an Inoki show without a interesting match up and I don’t think things can get any more interesting when you see 87kg “Cosplay Fighter/Wrestler” Yuichiro Nagashima taking on 145kg Bob “The Beast” Sapp. Many know how dangerous Nagashima can be when it comes to actual kickboxing, but the 27 year old fighter is being outweighed by almost 60kg. Nagashima has shown that he does not fear The Beast in anyway, so come 12/2 could we end up seeing Nagashima with the big win?

IGF has added 2 more matches to the upcoming event on Dec. 2nd, as well as a change to a match that was reported here a few days ago.
Tatsumi Fujinami continues on with his anniversary year as he faces off against Ultimo Dragon. Inoki’s 17 year old up and comer Akira Jo will be taking on Grappling Expert Taka Kunou.

As for the card change, the previously reported matches to crown a new #1 contender have been scrapped as Atsushi Sawada was given another opponent for the event. So in the place Suzukawa and Suzuki will face off in a singles match.

———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–[NOAH News] NOAH has announced that Suzuki & Aoki will be defending their Jr. Tag belts against Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste at the final Korakuen Hall show of 2011 on Dec. 15th. Nicholls & Haste have been building themselves as the heel tag team in NOAH as of late with each other running in to assist the other in singles matches and so forth. On 12/15 they will finally have a chance to show how well they work together as they go for the tag belts.

Big Japan announced today that they will be holding a Singles Tournament to decide who will be the next to face the current Death Match Heavyweight Champion Ryuji Ito. From what I gather it will start on Feb. 6th.

Interesting to see Younger’s name on the list, but it will be good for him and all around beneficial with BJW working with outside talent. I am more surprised that Yoshihito Sasaki’s name is not included as he has really gained my interest back into what BJW has to offer as of late.

Be sure to check back with the site for all the latest happenings as I will post them as I come across them.